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CARD-SETTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 528,354, dated October 30, 1 894.

Application filed August 2,1894. Serial No. 519,315- (No model.) I

To dZZ iuhom it may concern: I

Beit known that I, CLARENCE W. ARNOLD, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, l1ave..invented' certain Improvements in'Card-Setting Machines, of which the following is afspe'cification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in card sticking or setting machines, that is, machines in which a strip or sheet of fabric or leather is provided with a series of teeth, technically known as card clothing.

The main object of my invention is to so construct a machine for this purpose that it can be drivemat a high rate of speed and can be adapted for setting teeth either in sheets or fillets. I

A further object of my invention .is to so construct the machine that two or. more carriages can be driven from a single head and to readily change the machine so that it Will set teeth of different crowns and to make the forward movement positive to prevent the carriage overthrowing when the machine is driven at a high rate of speed.

My invention also relates to special construction of mechanism relating to details of the machine which will be fully described hereinafter, reference being had to the acmechanism. Fig. 9 is arear view of a strip of card clothing. Fig. 10 is asectional view of the strip on the line 10-10, Fig. 9. Fig. 11, is a detached view of a detail of the shifter mechanism. Fig. 12, is a transverse sectional view on the line 1212, Fig. 2 Fig. 13, is a plan viewof the card sticking mechanism on the carriage. Fig. 14, is a view looking in the direction of the arrow 1, Fig. 13. Fig. 15, is a View looking in the direction of the arrow 2, Fig. 13. Fig. 16, is a section on theline 16-16, Fig. 2 Fig. 17, is a section on the line 17-17,

Fig. 2 Figs. 18 to 22, are diagram views of reel at one end of the machine.

the card sticking mechanism. Fig. 23, is a section on theline 2323, Fig.2? Fig. 24, is asection on the line 24=-,2et, Fig. 2 Fig. 25, isa detached view showing the method of securing the rope to the carriage. Fig. 26, is a detached perspective view of the vibrating mechanism for the carrier frame. Fig. 27, is

a section on the line 27-27, Fig. 12. Fig.

28, is a plan view of the puncturing bar operating device detached. Fig. 29, is a side view illustrating the stop motion. Fig. 30, is a transverse view alsoillustrating the stop motion. .Fig. 31, is a perspective diagram illustrating the wiring of the electric stop motion.

The machine may be divided into three' parts: first, the part A, which is the mechanism for feeding the carriage and for giving motion to the main elements of the machine, (this partA is fixed at present, situated at one end of the machine:) the part B, which is the mechanism for holding and feeding the fabtheteeth in a fillet or a narrow web and the teeth are formed from a Wire drawn from a The carriage is advanced intermittently and during the dwell the wire is bent so as to form a crown and two prongs and in the meantime the web o'rfabric is punctured in line with the prongs so that the prongs when moved forward will be guided into the openings. The tooth is not driven the full distance until the knee forming device on the opposite side of thefabric bends the prongs to form a knee giving each tooth the proper pitch, after'whichthe tooth is driven home by the needle bar and as the carriage is fed forward the wire from which the teeth are formed is fed in line with the bending mechanism so as to form anew tooth. When the carriage reaches the end of the forward motion the fabric is fed forward presenting'a new surface for the sticking mechanism on the carriage to insert another row of teeth. I

The twill or staggering of the teeth so as to space them the proper distance apart on the face is efiected in this machine bya cam having as many faces as the twills desired. While the carriage is at rest the feed pawl is adjusted by the cam to the proper distance so that when it feeds the carriage forward it adds to the throw of the carriage the distance from twill to twill.

The card shown in the drawings is a three twill card and the carriage is fed forward by the cam two steps from its first position and after its second step it is returned to its first position.

A is the driving shaft of the machine mounted in suitable hearings on the frame W. This frame is supported upon suitable legs to connected together by two bars w, one on each side of the machine. These bars are round in the present instance and on them is mounted the carriage O and fixed to one of the bars is the work holding device B.

The shaft A is provided with a hand wheel a. and fast and loose pulleys a", a and is geared to the longitudinal cam shaft D by miter wheels on and d.

The several cams for giving motion to the card sticking mechanism are mounted on a sleeve D splined to the shaft 1), so that while the sleeve travels with the carriage it rotates with the shaft.

A is an eccentric on the shaft A for feeding the carriage positively forward and A is an eccentric for positively returning the carriage. The cam A also mounted on theshaft A, controls the movement of the positive feed pawl e carried by the reciprocating pawl arm E, which is reciprocated alternately by the eccentrics A A", through their rods (1 a adapted to be thrown into and out of gear alternately with the arm E, which is connected to the arm E by a stiff spring a in the present instance, but these arms may be rigidly connected together, without departing from my invention. When the eccentric rod 0. is coupled to the arm E and the rod a uncoupled by the shifting mechanism which is thrown into gear when the carriage reaches its rearward limit, the feed will be reversed and when the rod a is coupled and the rod a uncoupled when the carriage reaches its forward limit the feed will be again reversed.

On a cross shaft F, mounted in bearings under the bed of the machine is a toothed wheel F with which engages the positive pawl e and as this wheel is fast to the shaft it turns the shaft intermittently in either direction according to the feed of the pawl dictated by either of the eccentrics. On this shaft F is secured a drum F to which is attached the wire rope G which extends to the opposite end of the machine and passes around a pulley F on a cross shaft F The ends of this rope are attached to each side of the carriage O. In the present instance, as shown in Fig. 25, the rope G is adjustably secured to the carriage by bolts g, which can be readily taken up for wear or other adjustments. In the present instance the feed e feeds the wheel F only one tooth either way according to which eccentric A or A is connected to' the arm.

In order to vary the feed of the carriage to make the necessary twill I mount in hearings on the arm E a shaft e Figs. 4. and 5, on which, in the present instance, is a six step cam 6 which is rotated by a pawl 6 acting upon a ratchet wheel a secured to the shaft 6 The pawl e is pivoted to an arm a pivoted to the frame of the machine at e and acted upon by a cam e' on a sleeve II mounted upon the longitudinal shifter shaft II and geared thereto by the train of gearing h, h, M, 7L3, so that the pawl will be operated in time with the rest of the machine.

The cam e is shown in the present instance as a six step cam but it can be a three step cam for making the twill shown in Fig. 9, but by making it a six step cam and duplicating the steps,I am enabled to make a three twill or a six twill without changing the parts. If a six twill cam is made, however, the distance from the center of the steps will gradually increase. It will be seen that by inserting the cam e between the two arms E and E, the normal movement of the carriage given by either of the eccentrics can be increased or diminished by an independent movement of the cam. The pawl e is forced into gear with the wheel F by a spring a and raised by a lever A pivoted at a. The short arm of this lever is acted upon by a cam a on the shaft A and this cam is so timed with the eccentrics A A that it will lift the pawl out of gear with the wheel F when the eccentrics reach the limit of their forward stroke and release the pawl allowing it to be forced into gear with the wheel priorto the forward stroke of either of the eccentrics.

On the cross shaft F through which the carriage is fed is a friction wheel f on which rests a brake shoe f carried by a spring bar The object of this mechanism is to prevent the shaft moving beyond a predetermined point.

Mounted on the cam shaft D are two loose pinions D D Figs. 2 2 and 11, adapted to be clutched to the sleeve D as the carriage is fed up to either of the pinions and when either of the pinions is locked to the shaft it turns with it and as they are geared to the shifter shaft through the train of gears 61 and (Z respectively, they turn the shifter shaft H and consequently the sleeve H, described above, which also carries the cam H for locking the eccentric rods a (L This cam actson a vertical slide H which is hooked at its lower end so as to span the shaft H, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 3. This slide H acts against the under side of an lever H tends to move the lever in the direc-' tion indicated by the arrow. The arm h of this lever is directly under the eccentric rod a and the arm h of the lever is directly under the eccentric rod a Thus as the lever is operated by the cam through the medium of the slide H it forces one or other of the eccentric rods up into engagement with the spring pawls e or 6 As shown in Fig. 3, the cam H has raised the slide up and consequently the arm h of the lever H has also been raised throwing the eccentric rod a into engagement with the pawl e of the arm E, and the arm h of the lever'H has been drawn away from the eccentric rod a which is allowed to fall clear of its pawl e by its own weight. As soon as the high portion of the cam passes away from the slide H the spring h 'forces the arm it down in the direction of the arrow and lifts the arm it up throwing the eccentric rod 0. into engagement with the pawl e of the arm E and allowing the eccentric rod a to drop clear of the pawl 6 e is a spring connected to a cross bar a which rests upon the upper ends of the pawls e and e and by this means the pawls are allowed to yield sufficiently so that when the slot 6 in the upper portion of either of the eccentric rods is not in line with the pawls they simply rest upon the surface-of the eccentric rods and when the eccentrics move the rods to the proper position the pawls will be forced into position by the spring e A shoulder on each pawl limits its downward movement. One spring in the present instance is utilized for both pawls and one can raise and lower independently of the other but it will be understood that two springs may be used if necessary.

H is a locking bolt pivoted at h to the arm E and the projection h is acted upon by the arm h of the lever H when it is lowered forcing the locking bolt H from under the eccentric rod a allowing it to fall out of engagement, but as soon as the cam H allows the spring h to return the lever a spring h returns the locking bolt to its normal position under the eccentric rod so as to lock it into engagement with the lever E until the locking bolt is again thrown out by the lever H This locking bolt H is simply used as an emergency look as I do not wish to depend upon the spring h to lock the eccentric rod or, in position. The eccentric rodor, is locked in position by the cam H Secured to the shaft H is a cam H which is so set in respect to the cam H that at every third rotation of the shaft H it lifts the vertical slide H by striking the roller h in advance of the cam H has an even intermittent movement the slide H is raised in proper time, the cam H acting on the mechanism at every sixth twill.

On the sleeve H is a cam H shown clearly in Fig. 7, having two abrupt raised portions Thus while the cam H M, which act upon the lever I pivoted at e to the frame of the machine. Connected to this lever at i is an arm 2' of a lover I. The arm 2' of this lever is connected to a filler slide I by a rod 2' and spring 11 The end of this rod I is so set that itwill be projected by the raised portions of the cam H into one of the spaces between the teeth in the wheel F. The slide is withdrawn by a spring '6 The object of this slide is to allow the pawl to drop a tooth at intervals to form the twill or staggering of the teeth so that the teeth will be spaced the proper distance apart on the face. The slide 1 prevents the pawl from dropping into a tooth at a certain point and allows the cam e to move the arm E a distance equal to the twill.

I will now describe the mechanism for feeding the fabric forward and for bindin the teeth to form the ends. 0

Referring now to Figs. 1, 2 2 8 and 24, J and J are the feed rollers for the fabric or leather. The feed roll J is mounted in suitable bearings on the frame J 2 adapted to the longitudinal bar to being secured thereto by set-screws j. The two ends j of the bar are tied together by the angle plate 7' and bar 7' Fig. 24,- so that the fabric will pass, as shown by dotted lines in said figure, over the longitudinal bar w of the frame between the rollers J J up against the angle plate 9' and in front of the bar J 3 the fabric or leather being fed in the direction of the arrow. The upper end of the fabric or leather, in the present instance, is tied to a cord 00 which passes over the wheel m at the ceiling and has suspended from it a suitable weight 0: so that the fabric or leather will be under tension at all times. The roller J is held in contact against the under side of the roller J by a U-shaped springj, as shown in Fig. 24, and the roller J is fluted or corrugated, or otherwise roughened so as to impeach upon the fabric. The feed roll J has a gear at one end which meshes with a pinion j" on the studj mounted on a bracket 3' secured to the logitudinal rod w. On this stud and locked to the pinion j is a ratchet wheel j which engages a feed pawl k on the short arm of a lever K pivoted on the stud f. The long arm of this lever K is acted upon by a cam K having abrupt projections is. This cam is secured to the shaft H. A spring secured to the frame J and to the short arm of the lever keeps the long arm of the lever in contact with the .cam so that as the cam rotates the pawl will 

